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jpak

(41,758 posts)
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 09:50 PM Dec 2016

Maine woman besieged by hate calls after pro-Trump websites list her number

Source: Bangor Daily News

That’s how Debbie Oram answered her phone Tuesday afternoon and that’s how she’ll continue to answer it as long as she keeps receiving nasty phone calls from Donald Trump supporters. Since Friday, when the news broke that the owner of Turner LP Gas Services of Skowhegan had left a voicemail on his business line saying that he would not deliver fuel to anyone who voted for Trump, she has received more than 100 calls.

Oram has nothing to do with Turner LP Gas Services and isn’t interested in telling anyone about her political leanings. The reason for all the calls is that her phone number is one digit different from Turner’s and has been published incorrectly on multiple websites created by Trump supporters in response to the voicemail.

“I’d appreciate anything you can do to put it out there so these calls will stop,” said Oram, a home health nurse who is out of work because of a knee replacement. “I would hate to change my number but that’s what I’ll have to do if this doesn’t stop. We’ve had our number for years.”

Oram said some of the calls have been polite while others were downright threatening in the very worst sense of the word. There have been threats against her 21-year-old daughter and once, when her 11-year-old son said something in the background, a threat was directed at him. The boy started sleeping with Oram’s bedroom because he is scared.

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Maine woman besieged by hate calls after pro-Trump websites list her number (Original Post) jpak Dec 2016 OP
But Trump's supporters don't threaten people. Ms. Toad Dec 2016 #1
what a sick ass man bdamomma Dec 2016 #2
Yeah the scary thing is he doesn't know or care what he is doing. Initech Dec 2016 #4
He knows damn well what he is doing MountCleaners Dec 2016 #5
And the sad thing is the deplorables will eat it up. Initech Dec 2016 #6
So much this -- eom littlemissmartypants Dec 2016 #8
We are going down the toilet very quickly. Initech Dec 2016 #3
+1 nt iluvtennis Dec 2016 #10
her statement... handmade34 Dec 2016 #7
Sounds like Putin's people are busy again elmac Dec 2016 #9
Trumpers need to spew hatred at someone IronLionZion Dec 2016 #11
Here we are in Thug Nation. Paladin Dec 2016 #12
Sue that guy!!! Please. For me. Grins Dec 2016 #13

Ms. Toad

(34,074 posts)
1. But Trump's supporters don't threaten people.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 09:55 PM
Dec 2016

Donald J. Trump ?@realDonaldTrump Dec 18

If my many supporters acted and threatened people like those who lost the election are doing, they would be scorned & called terrible names!


In case I need it:

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
2. what a sick ass man
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 10:08 PM
Dec 2016

what sickening response, he really doesn't have a clue all the hatred he unleashed on this country, he still denies the increase of hate crimes.

Initech

(100,079 posts)
4. Yeah the scary thing is he doesn't know or care what he is doing.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 10:17 PM
Dec 2016

He opened up a box of hate that won't be closed for a very long time. I think what we are seeing now is going to get way worse before it gets better. And we elected a president who doesn't give a fuck about anything but himself. And that is very frightening.

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
5. He knows damn well what he is doing
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 10:22 PM
Dec 2016

He isn't stupid. He knows what his supporters do, it's his responsibility as President to know. He LIED on Twitter and said that his supporters weren't violent like HRC supporters. He lies all of the time!

Initech

(100,079 posts)
6. And the sad thing is the deplorables will eat it up.
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 10:24 PM
Dec 2016

I can't tell you how many Tweets I've read and received accusing us of hate and violence and that they are better. Fuck that shit! I counter with about 100 stories like this that I've seen so many places. Did we tag Adam Yauch Park with swastika grafitti? No. Did we harass the union boss of Carrier and threaten to murder his children? No. Did we get paid by George Soros to do any of this? Where's my check?

handmade34

(22,756 posts)
7. her statement...
Tue Dec 20, 2016, 10:37 PM
Dec 2016

“I just want all of this resolved and I don’t want any more phone calls. I wish everybody could just get along, personally, but I don’t see how that can happen at this point.”

that is correct... Trump and his supporters have opened Pandora's Box!!

from Wikipedia:

Pandora's box... a large jar given to Pandora which contained all the evils of the world. Pandora opened the jar and all the evils flew out, leaving only "Hope" inside once she had closed it again.
Today the phrase "to open Pandora's box" means to perform an action that may seem small or innocent, but that turns out to have severely detrimental and far-reaching negative consequences. The action cannot be reversed.

 

elmac

(4,642 posts)
9. Sounds like Putin's people are busy again
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 03:06 AM
Dec 2016

with the help of the Fascist Bureau of Investigation.

Grins

(7,217 posts)
13. Sue that guy!!! Please. For me.
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:38 AM
Dec 2016
"...the owner of Turner LP Gas Services...(said) that he would not deliver fuel to anyone who voted for Trump"

Like marriage licenses or wedding cakes for same-sex couples - it would be illegal to deny that service, even if it is his deeply-held-religious-belief™.

But I hope he does and gets sued, just to see the Reich-wing defending his right to discriminate. Some my-tee-fine-TV would ensue!
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